A systematic genetic screen to dissect the microrna pathway in drosophila

G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 437-448

  Pressman, Sigal ^a,b   Reinke, Catherine A ^a   Wang, Xiaohong ^a   Carthew, Richard W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Ago; Dicer; Drosophila; Microrna; Mirna

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883430386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21601836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/g3.112.002030     Document Type: Article

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